yardımcı hakemler: volker wezel (ger), harry ehing (ger)
4. hakem: thorsten kinhöfer (ger)
m. tel-aviv: liran strauber (gk), avi strool, salem abo siam, tal ben haim, john pantsil, tal banin, avi nimni (c), andrejs prohorenkovs (dk. 61 rodrigo goldberg), liran cohen (dk. 75 koby moosa), reuven oved, bruno reis (dk. 61 eli biton)
yedekler: gal nir (gk), moshe mishaelof, tamir cohen, assaf crispis
teknik direktör: nir klinger (isr)
Žilina: ivan trabalík (gk), martin konecný, martin Ďurica, zdeno štrba, branislav labant (c), radoslav zabavník, miroslav barčík, marek bazík, vladimír staš (dk. 78 michal drahno), dušan sninský, l'uboš cervenec (dk. 32 pavel putík (dk. 90 marián klago))
yedekler: ján mucha (gk), daniel ' kosmel, michal gottwald, martin fabuš
teknik direktör: milan lešický (svk)
goller: (0-1) dk. 16 dušan sninský (1-1) dk. 25 john pantsil
sarı kartlar: dk. 42 vladimír staš, dk. 75 zdeno štrba (Žilina)
london calling for Žilina published: wednesday 6 august 2003, 22.57cet maccabi tel-aviv fc 1-1 mšk Žilina (agg: 1-2) chelsea fc await victorious slovakian champions.
slovakian title-holders mšk Žilina will take on big-spending chelsea fc in the uefa champions league third qualifying round after a 1-1 draw against maccabi tel-aviv fc took them through 2-1 on aggregate.
sharp visitors already a goal ahead from the first leg, Žilina looked sharp from the start in a match held in budapest rather than israel for security reasons. Žilina striker luboš cervenec forced a save from maccabi goalkeeper liran strauber in the fourth minute, although at the other end reuven oved ensured the visiting custodian ivan trabalik had to be alert.
away goal cervenec then sent a close-range header wide from a martin durica cross, but in the 16th minute Žilina scored an away goal. durica's free-kick was not cleared by the home defence and dusan sninsky pounced to put his side 2-0 up on aggregate.
maccabi score needing three goals to progress, maccabi scored one of them within nine minutes when ghanaian defender john pantsil rose high to head in. trabalik pulled off another save from oved as maccabi continued to attack, but Žilina held on until the break.
oved denied their defence remained solid in the second half, as maccabi threw more resources forward. vladimír staš almost scored for Žilina on the hour with a long-range effort, but five minutes later oved was only denied by some desperate defending. chilean striker rodrigo goldberg was introduced by maccabi coach nir klinger to attempt a breakthrough and had a fierce shot saved by trabalik, but most of the late action was at the other end.
Žilina progress first zdeno štrba went close on the counterattack, and then pavel putík's header with ten minutes left was cleared off the line. Žilina had done enough to progress, though, and now chelsea - who have spent more than €50m this summer - stand in the way of a group stage berth for the slovakians.
